Luis Vielva1, María de Toro2, Val F Lanza3, Fernando de la Cruz4. 1. Departamento de Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. 2. Plataforma de Genómica y Bioinformática, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, Spain. 3. Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain. 4. Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de Cantabria and Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria (Universidad de Cantabria-CSIC), Santander, Spain.
Abstract
SUMMARY: PLACNET is a graph-based tool for reconstruction of plasmids from next generation sequence pair-end datasets. PLACNET graphs contain two types of nodes (assembled contigs and reference genomes) and two types of edges (scaffold links and homology to references). Manual pruning of the graphs is a necessary requirement in PLACNET, but this is difficult for users without solid bioinformatic background. PLACNETw, a webtool based on PLACNET, provides an interactive graphic interface, automates BLAST searches, and extracts the relevant information for decision making. It allows a user with domain expertise to visualize the scaffold graphs and related information of contigs as well as reference sequences, so that the pruning operations can be done interactively from a personal computer without the need for additional tools. After successful pruning, each plasmid becomes a separate connected component subgraph. The resulting data are automatically downloaded by the user. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PLACNETw is freely available at https://castillo.dicom.unican.es/upload/. CONTACT: delacruz@unican.es. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A tutorial video and several solved examples are available at https://castillo.dicom.unican.es/placnetw_video/ and https://castillo.dicom.unican.es/examples/.
SUMMARY: PLACNET is a graph-based tool for reconstruction of plasmids from next generation sequence pair-end datasets. PLACNET graphs contain two types of nodes (assembled contigs and reference genomes) and two types of edges (scaffold links and homology to references). Manual pruning of the graphs is a necessary requirement in PLACNET, but this is difficult for users without solid bioinformatic background. PLACNETw, a webtool based on PLACNET, provides an interactive graphic interface, automates BLAST searches, and extracts the relevant information for decision making. It allows a user with domain expertise to visualize the scaffold graphs and related information of contigs as well as reference sequences, so that the pruning operations can be done interactively from a personal computer without the need for additional tools. After successful pruning, each plasmid becomes a separate connected component subgraph. The resulting data are automatically downloaded by the user. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PLACNETw is freely available at https://castillo.dicom.unican.es/upload/. CONTACT: delacruz@unican.es. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A tutorial video and several solved examples are available at https://castillo.dicom.unican.es/placnetw_video/ and https://castillo.dicom.unican.es/examples/.
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